The Company: Powerful, disruptive, digital agency which is changing the landscape in their sector. They are in aggressive APAC growth with more investment in research, innovation and new product development than any competitor in their category.

With a culture focused on employee development and providing accelerated career paths, they have exceptional retention rates.

The Role

• Lead the solving of complex business problems where sizeable outcomes are involved, as are higher levels of uncertainty and complexity about both the problem and the solution
• Determine appropriate machine learning/statistical techniques for application in different products or analytical projects
• Develop POC stage products using R, Java, Python, etc based on defined acceptance criteria
• Work in an Agile SCRUM environment to deliver product POCs against an agreed development roadmap
• Manage the transition of Proof of Concept products/software to IT Development team to move products to a production state
• Creation of comprehensive documentation, including in code, technical specification and user/process guides
• Understand and provide input into conversations related to the technical management of large datasets and complex algorithmic solutions on AWS platform
• Actively promote new innovative approaches by staying abreast of contemporary industry developments
• Develop new Insights product concepts and lead scoping of initial POC design
• Reviewing research and discussion papers to develop own skills and to share with the team
• Presenting at internal and external knowledge sharing seminars

Demonstrated Capabilities

• Graduate and likely postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related discipline
• 2+ years’ experience in a Marketing environment, preferably in both a CRM and digital media context
• 5+years’ experience in an Analytics or Development environment, with strong hands-on experience utilising a wide array of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms
• Programming experience, preferably R, Java and/or Python
• Experience with SAS or SPSS syntax will be considered
• Strong SQL skills

Highly regarded experience

• Experience within an Agile or SCRUM environment
• Hadoop and/or Map Reduce experience a plus
• Strong mathematical background in solving matrix algebraic and linear programming/optimisation problems highly regarded
• Proof of coding experience through examples of statistical programming/library/package development on Github

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